1860

The authorities started using transportation as a punishment in the 1660's as the amount of crime increased dramatically as the population increased. the effect of the population increasing was that more people became poor which resulted to people stealing out of desperation. the bloody code was made as a deterrent of other people from stealing as the punishment was execution, but many jury's thought the punishment was to harsh for minor crimes so transportation was an alternative to hanging.…

the South escap by creating Underground Railroads and Safe Houses. Underground Railroads were the most effective way slaves were brought to freedom, it is estimated that more than 100,000 enslaved people were brought to freedom throughout 1850 and 1860. The border between the North and South is where Underground Railroads were stretched, “The Underground Railroad went north to freedom. Sometimes passengers stopped when they reached a free state such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Ohio.”…

African Americans have made phenomenal progress in achieving equal rights. During the 1860’s, the ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment were tremendous breakthroughs. The Fourteenth Amendment was proposed by the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, offering a new definition of an American citizen. The amendment stated that people born or naturalized in the United States would automatically become a citizen. As already promised in the Constitution, citizens were qualified to all…

In 1860, just a few years preceding the Civil war, the Union Army numbers totaled in about 16,000 men (Newell, 2014). To prepare for the unavoidable conflict with the Confederate States, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to enlist and in the next three years, congress authorized the acceptance of one million soldiers (Calabresi & Bobbit, 1978). To supplement this demand in man power, congress passed the Militia Act of 1862 which empowered the President to direct the States…

More than a quarter of my lineage can be traced to Russia in Eastern Europe. Life in Russia between 1860 and 1880 was extremely challenging. During this time people experienced severe widespread disease from the highly contagious cholera. This disease was due to food and water being contaminated by fecal matter from lack of proper sanitation equipment. The disease was spread by contaminated water and was responsible for thousands of deaths of people that experienced severe diarrhea and…

The racial attitudes of most white Americans before 1860 is that they are superior to African Americans in every way. Most white Americans played into racial theories and the idea of white supremacy. Many white Americans, because of the idea of white supremacy, became what would today would be considered racist. They believed many of the racial ideas at the time because of the belief that slaves were subhuman, and their property. Whites thought of themselves as much more civilized and cultured…

From 1840 to 1860 the total trackage length in the US increase more than nine times. Railroads in the mid 1800s were booming across America, following them was many radical changes. One of the first evident changes was one of independence; train lines diverted traffic from water ways, this in turn made the West in addition to the South more independent from their Northeastern counterparts. Rail lines were important for expansion across the nation, thousands of people used them to move Westward.…

rapidly. The party's first Presidential candidate was John C. Fremont, who ran unsuccessfully in 1856 although he carried eleven northern states. When Abraham Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president in 1860, he saw the U.S. through the Civil War. From Lincoln's victory in 1860 until 1928, the Republican Party won fourteen of the eighteen Presidential elections. Its policies appealed to many groups, including farmers,…

The Ultimate Battle 1860 -1877 were years that encompassed major events beginning as early as the Civil War leading up until the end of Reconstruction. After numerous efforts to improve the country and the status of African Americans after the Civil War, extreme developments were made. Although there were many factors that assisted the reform movement, the key developments were mainly constitutional and social. Events occurring throughout the North and South contributing to the revolution…

way of life for people in the country started to change drastically. We developed politically and economically, expanded westward and divided along sectional borders. However these are not the only characteristics that define this time period. 1790-1860 was a period of rapid industrialization, market revolution and changing social order. This was largely due to new methods of transportation, mechanization and the changes in women’s roles. As new developments were made in the transportation…